I read almost ALL the threads in front page news.
After more than 200 years, don't we have bigger fish to fry?
Whether Jefferson had children by a slave or not is irrelevent to today's society.
Almost correct...
it IS irrelevent to most anyone... except those who conveniently tried to use just such an arguement to blunt the bubba controversy....
Let us consider mindset for a moment...
False idols...the opposite of worshiping false idols isnt indifference....it's hatred...
Liberals *think* the conservatives look twords the founders as "idols"...to be worshipped...
This mindset leads them to believe that these conservative "idols" need to be destroyed...
Because...liberals in fact "idolize" many of their personalities...they in fact worship them...and think that their idols can do no wrong...even when proved to have done so...
While many conservatives realise that the founders where merely men of their contemporary times....todays morals and social norms simply do not apply...
It's not that they have done no wrong per se..only that whatever wrongs they did where by todays standards...not their own contemporaray times...
Thus the move to remove all vestages of Jefferson as a "slave owner"...
Or to simply destroy his historical image...because such an image is a threat...
Sure this is generalised...but the theme runs through out the liberal mantra
Well, many of the actions, choices, and behaviors of history's great movers are of interest to some people today. We who love history and psychology are interested because "those who do not know their history are doomed to repeat it." It's certainly interesting to consider whether or not one of the nation's founders was either a consummate liar and hypocrite, was the innocent victim of ugly, unjust accusations--or was a man who sincerely cared for a half-white slave girl who was the image of his adored late wife. Such questions are of compelling interest to many of us.
It's your prerogative not to be interested. But it's just silly to keep on asking "who cares?" Obviously, millions of us do, or we wouldn't read books and watch movies about these matters.